Cuts and Currents: Series Introduction — Dancing Between Becoming and Structure

Language is alive. It unfolds, it shifts, it surprises. Every text, every utterance, every moment of communication is a cut through a vast space of possibility. Yet even as we feel its motion, we must not forget its architecture: the patterns, constraints, and relational structures that make meaning coherent and perceivable.

This series explores the tension between process and perspective, between the thrill of unfolding experience and the discipline of stratified relational structure. We juxtapose two intellectual visions:

1. Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy — a universe of events, in which becoming is ontological, temporal, and primary.

2. M.A.K. Halliday’s relational semiotics — a universe of potential and instance, in which instantiation is perspectival, realisation is stratificational, and logogenesis is temporal but not ontological.

Whitehead tempts us: language as river, meaning as flow, events producing experience. Halliday anchors us: language as structure, meaning as relational cuts, instances actualising potential without collapsing the system.

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Structure of the Series

The series alternates between analytical rigour and mythic experience, reflecting both the intellect and the imagination of the reader:

• Analytical posts clarify distinctions, dissect relations, and explore the limits and possibilities of process philosophy in semiotic terms.

• Mythic interludes follow Liora, a guide through the rivers and lattices of becoming, where relational distinctions are felt, experienced, and lived.

The rhythm is deliberate:

Analytical insight → mythic immersion → analytical synthesis → mythic expansion …

By the end, the reader will not only understand but also experience the interplay of process and relational discipline, seeing how possibility flows without violating the architecture of language.

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What to Expect

Throughout the series, we will explore:

• The distinction between instantiation, realisation, and logogenesis.

• How Whiteheadian events illuminate the lived experience of language.

• How relational ontology preserves the structural integrity of meaning.

• How possibility can shimmer, flow, and unfold without collapsing into chaos.

This is a journey between sensation and discipline, between river and lattice, between flow and cut. Readers will encounter both the thrill of becoming and the clarity of perspective — ultimately glimpsing a world in which possibility becomes experience without sacrificing coherence.